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Technorati is indexing me again! They had to make a code change to fix
the problem with my blog getting stuck in their queue. Kudos to Eric M.
and the guys at
GetSatisfaction.com
where they have "community powered support for Technorati".

Well, they're "sorta, kinda" indexing me anyway. It's on a 24 hour tape
delay or something. So I never get picked up by Memeorandum because they
pull from Technorati and Technorati has stuff I posted yesterday
listed as my latest blog entry. And that's old news to Memeorandum.

Wankers.

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Today is the 3rd annual "Ask Them What They Mean When They Say
'Choice' Day." Each year pro-life heroine
Jill Stanek organizes this rebuttal to NARAL's "Blog For Choice Day" (put
on because, hey "celebrating" abortion is liberating, or something.)
It's a way for us to highlight the inherent contradiction in the feminist
mythology. Abortion doesn't make you un-pregnant. Abortion makes you the
mother of a dead baby.

Of course, pro-choicers don't like to talk about that part. They're all about
flowers and clouds and privacy (although I wonder just how "private" your
privacy really is when you're dancing around town in an
I-had-an-abortion T-shirt).

So Jill's idea is to get them talking about what "choice" really means. To
show them what "choice" really means. If they'll listen.

We have our work cut out for us.

Joanne Bamberger, aka PunditMom, joined
the 9Rules politics community a few years after I did. And it turns out
that no one could be more "pro-choice." In fact, she's put up
two
posts this week already "celebrating" the 40th anniversary
of Roe v Wade, both lamenting that there aren't enough abortions
being performed.

It's the ultimate feminist sacrament, abortion is. Apparently you aren't
really a woman until you've vacuumed at least one child out of your womb.
And Ms. Bamberger is determined to ensure that every women in America is
afforded the joy of watching that unwanted clump of cells splosh into the
slops bucket.

In her eyes, any attempt to prevent an abortion, any suggestion that a woman
might want to reconsider her decision and keep her child, any chance that a
woman might want to treat having an abortion as something more important than
having a hangnail removed, well that's
completely unacceptable.

With 40 years of judicial precedent that has incrementally rolled back abortion
access to work with and a panel of Supreme Court justices who appear more
willing than ever to re-open an issue that is considered settled law, women's
reproductive rights have never been more vulnerable. And thanks to a handful of
state legislators determined to make their political names and reputations by
advancing legislation meant to crumble those protections offered by Roe, we may
fragment into a new Confederacy of pro- and anti-women's health states sooner
than anyone could have imagined. To prevent that from happening, we need to
move away from just defending a woman's right to choose and back to an
aggressive stance where we once more demand that bodily autonomy belong to
all woman, regardless of their race or class.

Wow. How much sophistry can she cram into one paragraph? A new Confederacy!
Brought to you by men hoping to make abortion a political issue! As if the
most pro-abortion president in history wasn't just re-elected by politicizing
vaginas and attacking the Catholic Church as "anti-woman."

Planned Parenthood performed more abortions than ever last year. 55,000,000
to date. To Ms. Bamberger, that's merely a good start.

Now I could do as Jill suggests and go on over to PunditMom's site to ask
her about "choice." But Ms. Bamberger has admonished me against commenting
there. She doesn't like my questions. And I respect her wishes. It's a free
country. She's entitled to cocoon herself within the confines of her narrow
little mind.

But hey, I've got a blog. And pixels are free. So I've put my comments here.
If Ms. Bamberger or any of her ya-ya sisters want to come on in and explain
"choice," I'll listen. And I'll suggest they watch
The Silent Scream.